Pre-Operational Assimilation Testing of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS)

نویسندگان

  • William Campbell
  • Steve Swadley
  • William Bell
  • Clay Blankenship
  • Benjamin Ruston
  • Nancy Baker
چکیده

On October 18, 2003, the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) successfully launched DMSP F16 satellite with the first Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMI/S) instrument aboard. The SSMI/S is a conically-scanning passive microwave radiometer that includes seven temperature-sounding channels peaking below 30 km (channels 1-7), and six peaking between 30 km and 80 km (channels 19-24) (Fig. 1).

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تاریخ انتشار 2007